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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of North Somerset Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official North Somerset website
12,510 approved · 1,510 refused · 838 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 May 2019 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Market Hall Alexandra Road Clevedon BS21 7QE
Received 4 Dec 2025The Market Hall Alexandra Road Clevedon BS21 7QE
Received 4 Dec 20255 Fircliff Park Portishead BS20 7HQ
Received 4 Dec 2025Banwell Bypass Land To North And East Of Banwell Including Mitigation Highway Land In Sandford, Winscombe And Churchill
Received 4 Dec 2025Unit 1 Bridge Farm Square Congresbury BS49 5DF
Received 4 Dec 2025Greenhill Farm Greenhill Lane Sandford Winscombe BS25 5PE
Received 4 Dec 2025Manderly Birch Avenue Bleadon Weston-super-Mare BS24 0PA
Received 5 Dec 2025The Manor House Clevedon Road Walton-in-Gordano BS21 7AN
Received 5 Dec 2025Land South Of Llanwern Steelworks 13km East Of Newport South Wales
Received 3 Dec 2025Pavement Outside 17/19 Dark Lane Backwell BS48 3NT
Received 4 Dec 2025Deep Acres Cadbury Camp Lane Clapton-in-Gordano BS20 7SA
Received 5 Dec 202512521623 / 125216 / 87568vf New Bristol Road Weston-super-Mare
Received 4 Dec 2025Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 5 Dec 2025Pavement Outside 7 Old Bristol Road Weston-super-Mare BS22 6DA
Received 5 Dec 202518 Lampton Road Long Ashton BS41 9AL
Received 5 Dec 2025Tanglewood Burwalls Road Leigh Woods BS8 3PT
Received 5 Dec 2025Land SW Of Long Ashton Park And Ride Off Gurney Roundabout (A370) And Colliters Way Long Ashton
Received 5 Dec 2025Lower Strode Farm Lower Strode Winford BS40 8BN
Received 5 Dec 202517 The Keep Weston-super-Mare BS22 7PJ
Received 5 Dec 20254 Church Street Banwell BS29 6EA
Received 8 Dec 20251 Wasp Way Weston-super-Mare BS24 8EX
Received 8 Dec 202518 Glebe Road Long Ashton BS41 9LH
Received 8 Dec 202544 Hillcrest Road Nailsea BS48 2JA
Received 8 Dec 202514 Rodmoor Road Portishead BS20 7JE
Received 9 Dec 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for North Somerset Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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